Mark Lee Gardner and Rex Rideout

From the event:
Wild West Weekend

New Mexico History Museum

Mark Lee Gardner (left) and Rex Rideout perform during the New Mexico History Museum's Wild West Weekend. The duo specializes in the historic music of the Western experience using vintage instruments and historic playing styles. Their music "is precisely what your ancestors heard, what they danced to," writes Jon Chandler of their popular release, Frontier Favorites: Old Time Music of the Wild West.   “…this music is realistic enough in style and content to have been played and sung in its exact form on the Western frontier....It is rollicking, it is exhilarating, and most of all, it is real."                


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